Re: [ADMIN] Disk Utilization Increases And Time for Vacuum Increases.

2003-08-25 Thread Curt Sampson
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Vikram D. Gaitonde wrote: One action we have consiously not done is REINDEX on the table. We want to avoid that as far as possible. Why do you want to avoid this? It may be the only option you have, other than a database dump and reload. 3: relpages for the indices

[ADMIN] Automated backup problems - pg_dump

2003-08-25 Thread Jesse Burkhardt
I am sure many of you have encountered the problems I am experiencing with automating the pg_dump command from a cron. The problem arises from a failure of this command to use the environmental variable, PG_PASSWORD. (PGUSER, on the other hand, is picked up during command execution.) The cron

Re: [ADMIN] Automated backup problems - pg_dump

2003-08-25 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Jesse Burkhardt wrote: I am sure many of you have encountered the problems I am experiencing with automating the pg_dump command from a cron. The problem arises from a failure of this command to use the environmental variable, PG_PASSWORD. (PGUSER, on the other hand, is

[ADMIN] System Tables

2003-08-25 Thread Jaskier
Hi, I would Like to get information abort tables existing In PostgreSQL via? PHP. I would like to know the names, their description and of course how they are build. I Am not quite sure how to get this on the Web Site, in PG I can use ? \d table_name, but it doesnt work here Can

[ADMIN] Query to slow

2003-08-25 Thread Rhaoni Chiu Pereira
Hi List, As I said before, I'm not a DBA yet , but I'm learning ... and I already have a PostgreSQL running, so I have to ask some help... I got a SQL as folows : SELECT /*+ */ ftnfco00.estado_cliente , ftcofi00.grupo_faturamento , SUM( DECODE( ftcofi00.atual_fatura, '-',

Re: [ADMIN] System Tables

2003-08-25 Thread maillist
well in unix man psql command line options -E shows the queries that are generated by the \d or other sudo commands reading a 10 point font on a 1600x1280 screen sucks, please text only to mailing lists -- Arno Karner aka Behind the Muffs West 7th St., St. Paul aka smell, Minn

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2003-08-25 Thread Petre Daniel
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[ADMIN] postgres hab modification without restarting

2003-08-25 Thread Hornyak Laszlo
Hi all! Is it possible to make the postmaster re-read the pg_hba.conf when needed without pg_ctl restarting the database? I think I could send a unix signal to it, it would simly re-read the file and apply the information for new incoming connection requests. I was looking for this info in the

Re: [ADMIN] Query to slow

2003-08-25 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 08:17, Rhaoni Chiu Pereira wrote: Hi List, As I said before, I'm not a DBA yet , but I'm learning ... and I already have a PostgreSQL running, so I have to ask some help... I got a SQL as folows : snip I have created the decode, NVL and DIVIDE

Re: [ADMIN] postgres hab modification without restarting

2003-08-25 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 09:15, Hornyak Laszlo wrote: Hi all! Is it possible to make the postmaster re-read the pg_hba.conf when needed without pg_ctl restarting the database? I think I could send a unix signal to it, it would simly re-read the file and apply the information for new incoming

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2003-08-25 Thread Rodrigo De la Peña
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Re: [ADMIN] template1 database...

2003-08-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 00:38:35 +0800, Chris M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The link is very good. But another question. In PostgreSQL, a superuser can modify almost everything in the databases. But I don't think that should be the default. Maybe adding an option is better. When a superuser

Re: [ADMIN] template1 database...

2003-08-25 Thread Chris M
Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is usually accomplished by logging in as a normal user for most tasks and only using a superuser account when it is needed. Yes. DBAs should be careful when operating on the databases. But I have seen many people using the superuser in MS SQL Server to

[ADMIN] System Tables

2003-08-25 Thread Andrzej Schulz
Hi, I would Like to get information abort tables existing In PostgreSQL via? PHP. I would like to know the names, their description and of course how they are build. I Am not quite sure how to get this on the Web Site, in PG I can use ? \d table_name, but it doesnt work here Can

[ADMIN] pg_ctl won't start postgres, but postmaster will?!

2003-08-25 Thread Steve Santacroce
I have had a lot of problems trying to install the postgres on a second FreeBSD box. I installed it using the ports install, so that part of the process went painlessly. however, when I tried to run the .sh script file that was installed, I get nothing. The script's commands are: chmod 600

Re: [ADMIN] Automated backup problems - pg_dump

2003-08-25 Thread Chad R. Larson
At 03:46 PM 8/24/2003 , Jesse Burkhardt wrote: One (non-trivial) solution is to use a cron (like fcron) that allows you to set the environment of the executed process. I like fcron very much, but you'd have to be the system administer (or his cooperation) to install it. I am sure many of you

Re: [ADMIN] Disk Utilization Increases And Time for Vacuum Increases.

2003-08-25 Thread Jeff Boes
One action we have consiously not done is REINDEX on the table. We want to avoid that as far as possible. Why? It's usually a very painless step, unless the table has millions and millions of rows. We reindex tables with multiple indexes and several million rows on a weekly basis. The only

[ADMIN] readline-4.2a compile ,installation problem

2003-08-25 Thread Archie MacDonald (rsh)
Hi Folks I am following the instructions in the techdocs for solaris 8 ( see link below) and I am trying to instal readline 4.2a first. It has not went well so far ...:-( http://techdocs.postgresql.org/v2/Guides/Installation%20Guides/Compiling%20PostgreSQL%207.3.2%20on%20Solaris%208%209/view I

Re: [ADMIN] a problem

2003-08-25 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 05:01, sharvari N wrote: hello How do i change the definition of a column? one of the columns width is not sufficient to store the data. I want to change the width. how to do that in postgres? I tried doing alter table + change/modify. both of them doesn't work in